Re: xterm and mc shortcuts

2006-01-26 Thread Andras Lorincz
The xterm -xrm XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true & solves the problem so I put it in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm resource file. Thanks for the support.

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Howie
Steve Block wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:18AM -0800, Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky > wrote: > >> THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR >> >> UNITED STATES PETITION >> >> JANUARY 25, 2006 >> >> We The People, majority of peaceful Americans of these great 50 United >> States & Territories, do hearby state

Re: Jerky PS/2 Mouse W/ 2.6 Kernel (Again)

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 27 January 2006 01:15, Adam Porter wrote: > Which 2.6 kernel are you trying to use? There are at least fifteen > different ones. :) I suggest trying the latest one in Debian that you can > use (some require newer versions of things like udev, which you might or > might not want to upgr

Mouse Scroll Wheel Activates Context Menu In Firefox

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I just installed Sid to a new partition on my hard drive. I had trouble (as posted eariler) with the mouse movement being jerky under the 2.6.8 kernel. I replaced that with the 2.6.15 kernel, which I understand was packaged under a new kernel packaging system. The mouse movement is no longer

Re: Jerky PS/2 Mouse W/ 2.6 Kernel (Again)

2006-01-26 Thread Adam Porter
Which 2.6 kernel are you trying to use? There are at least fifteen different ones. :) I suggest trying the latest one in Debian that you can use (some require newer versions of things like udev, which you might or might not want to upgrade [I've had no problems with 2.6.15]). -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Xsession error: "unsupported number of arguments (2); falling back to default session"

2006-01-26 Thread Adam Porter
After a recent upgrade, I started getting this error when I log in with one user with KDM. It pops up in a little window with an "okay" button. After I click "okay", it comes back, but after the second dismissal, KDE loads fine. It doesn't happen with every user, just my main one. I've Googled

Re: Can't sync with Evolution

2006-01-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
> I use jpilot, not Evolution, but I have this in /etc/udev/udev.rules: > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", \ > SYMLINK+="pilot" Thanks for the reply, its so nice to know my post was not forgotten. I have almost an id

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marty
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Marty wrote: udev handles that. Not if you are booting in emergency mode, it doesn't. Suddenly you will have to jump through a lot more loops to get enough of the system running to do whatever you need if for some reason you cannot simpl

Re: Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

2006-01-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:00:04PM +0800, r wrote: > well i have been having this problem for 1 year. the computer will only > install windows and not linux ,macintosh?this image contains a linux kernel-i > think which reconfigures the boot setup. i have partially erased this RAMDISK > image but

Re: Sarge goes into a time warp (literally)

2006-01-26 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 1/26/06, ryan punt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a bit of a showstopper here. I'm runnind Debian Sarge on an IBM x305 > (1U server chassis). Its primary function is to serve as an apt-mirror for > the company; it also runs instances of apache and apache-ssl, mysql, and a > few other p

Re: recipe for kernel build...

2006-01-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:06:51PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Great, that was the clue I needed - thanks! > > So how does this look as a recipe for rebuilding my 2.6.8-2-386 > kernel from source: > apt-get install kernel-tree-2.6.8 > apt-get install pcmcia-source > cd /usr/src

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Marty wrote: > udev handles that. Not if you are booting in emergency mode, it doesn't. Suddenly you will have to jump through a lot more loops to get enough of the system running to do whatever you need if for some reason you cannot simply run udev. Really, don't bother too

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marty
Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Marty wrote: Good point, although only /dev/console seems to be required by my Sarge systems. I'm sure it'd be entertaining to watch your machine trying to boot without any of its mass-storage devices. udev handles that. Enterta

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Good point, although only /dev/console seems to be required by my Sarge > systems. I'm sure it'd be entertaining to watch your machine trying to boot without any of its mass-storage devices. Entertaining, but not terribly useful. Why do c

Re: Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

2006-01-26 Thread r
well i have been having this problem for 1 year. the computer will only install windows and not linux ,macintosh?this image contains a linux kernel-i think which reconfigures the boot setup. i have partially erased this RAMDISK image but will apreciate any suggestions as many files are write

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Steve Block wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:18AM -0800, Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky wrote: > >THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR > > > >UNITED STATES PETITION > > No one gets my support by spamming. Spam? On this list?! Surely you jest! -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:18AM -0800, Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky wrote: THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR UNITED STATES PETITION JANUARY 25, 2006 We The People, majority of peaceful Americans of these great 50 United States & Territories, do hearby state that since we declared war on Iraq in 2003

Re: Which pacakge for mpi

2006-01-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Joseph Smidt wrote: I am trying to obtain the header files for mpi, like mpi.h. Which Debian package is it in? I use mpich2. The debian packages are available at http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/ raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malaya

Re: mencoder

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
On Thursday 26 January 2006 22:42, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > Is possible to separate audio - video ? > > I have a video (mpg), and want a video file with no > sound (mpg?), and a sound file with no video (wav? > mp3? ogg?) > > Is this possible with mencoder? > > If it is no possible, then wha

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-26 Thread linux china
Yes, My system is woody, 3.0 r4. could I apt-get upgrade, then system will be at the same level as sarge? and I could install mysql 5.0 from backport, I not very sure.   On 1/27/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:08:08PM +0800, linux china wrote:>In fact, I tried

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marty
Colin wrote: Marty wrote: Did you delete the old /dev directory? Maybe udev keeps what's already there. DON'T DELETE THE /dev ENTRIES BECAUSE OF UDEV!!! These entries are needed to help boot the system before udev takes over. Good point, although only /dev/console seems to be required by m

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Colin
Marty wrote: > Did you delete the old /dev directory? Maybe udev keeps what's already > there. DON'T DELETE THE /dev ENTRIES BECAUSE OF UDEV!!! These entries are needed to help boot the system before udev takes over. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:08:08PM +0800, linux china wrote: In fact, I tried both and failed, 1) etch, I don't know how to active the suggest option, any hint? Get:35 ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net etch/main mysql-server-5.0 5.0.16-1 [17.1MB] Fetched 43.0MB in 7m8s (100kB/s) E: This installation run

THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky
THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR UNITED STATES PETITION JANUARY 25, 2006 We The People, majority of peaceful Americans of these great 50 United States & Territories, do hearby state that since we declared war on Iraq in 2003 without being in any imminent threat against our country, we now respectfull

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marty
Tony Godshall wrote: According to Marty, Did you delete the old /dev directory? Maybe udev keeps what's already there. they get put in /dev/.static So they do. I guess that's not the problem. Oddly, I have another Sarge system using udev which doesn't have a /dev/.static directory. I d

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) > >j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: >> > First off, I am a newbie in

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:17, j Mak wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: >> First off, I am a newbie in Linux >> and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and >> both have built in

Re: iptables init script (like in Gentoo) ?

2006-01-26 Thread Ivan Neto
Hello, In the new version of iptables Debian doesn't use the init script anymore. Anyway, you can find the old init script in /usr/share/doc/iptables/examples . Just copy it to /etc/init.d . Hope it helps.On 1/26/06, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,In Gentoo, the ip

Problem with X.org in Sid (sis card)

2006-01-26 Thread Magnus Therning
My X freezes up every now and then, forcing me to power-cycle. I'm suspecting a problem with X, but I'm not sure. Hardware: % lspci|grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter It doesn't really happen regularly.

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:52:53 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:01:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Magnus Therning wrote: > > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev > > >(on Sid): > > > > > > % ls /dev|wc -l > > > 662 > > > > > >Mor

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, > Magnus Therning wrote: > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev > >(on Sid): > > > > % ls /dev|wc -l > > 662 > > I use udev with Sarge, and I get: > $ ls /dev |wc -l > 155 > > > > >More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev p

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Marty
Magnus Therning wrote: I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev (on Sid): % ls /dev|wc -l 662 I use udev with Sarge, and I get: $ ls /dev |wc -l 155 More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev promised by udev... Under other Linux distros I'v

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:52:53 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:01:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Magnus Therning wrote: > > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev > > >(on Sid): > > > > > > % ls /dev|wc -l > > > 662 > > > > > >Mor

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up[SOLVED]

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper?Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to

Re: mencoder

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:42:59 -0800 (PST) Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Is possible to separate audio - video ? > > I have a video (mpg), and want a video file with no > sound (mpg?), and a sound file with no video (wav? > mp3? ogg?) > > Is this possible with mencoder? yes

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:01:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev > >(on Sid): > > > > % ls /dev|wc -l > > 662 > > > >More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev promised by > >udev...

kdemultimedia-kio-plugins plumbing problem solved

2006-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
That package along with the whole unstable distro got removed. This doesn't leave x in a very conversational state but then again I've heard that part of the system is usually one of those strong silent types. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

[RUI-51397]: Re: Document

2006-01-26 Thread ispX Information
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[ABD-70998]: Re: Document

2006-01-26 Thread ispX Information
== Please reply above this line == debian-user@lists.debian.org, Your ticket has been submitted to our Information department, one of the staff members will review it and reply accordingly. Listed below are details of this ticket, you will need to use the ticket key listed below to upda

mencoder

2006-01-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! Is possible to separate audio - video ? I have a video (mpg), and want a video file with no sound (mpg?), and a sound file with no video (wav? mp3? ogg?) Is this possible with mencoder? If it is no possible, then what program i should use? Thanks! _

Re: Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

2006-01-26 Thread Lei Kong
Thanks for the hint, now things looks all right now. My laptop screen is 14in 5:3 wide screen, guess that's why things got screwed up. Now I set the display size explicitly in xorg.conf, I am running debian testing. No way to let the machine detect the correct DPI automatically? guess that requir

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:48:34PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache search' doesn't find the > > likes of the following: > > > > 1. xv - John Bradley's X image viewer/manipulator.. > > Non-free shareware. I've actually emailed John and received > clarification

Which pacakge for mpi

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph Smidt
I am trying to obtain the header files for mpi, like mpi.h.  Which Debian package is it in?-- -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: sudo and X

2006-01-26 Thread Lei Kong
I haven't seen any definitive answers to this one yet and I'm not sure if the behavior is different between sarge and etch (I have etch). After the update of sudo I didn't have any problems, but as soon as I put the "Defaults env_reset" into the /etc/sudoers as suggested by the DSA 946-1, the s

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Howie
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I > assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe > motherboard by some jumper? Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to double-check that. -- Chris

Re: switching / to lvm

2006-01-26 Thread Mike McCarty
David Kirchner wrote: On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, I've only seen one say "I'm glad I used LVM", but on a regular basis someone gets bitten. Agreed. I

Re: gv stuck in a loop when printing?

2006-01-26 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Need quick answer folks, I'm burning paper by the ream here. > > I have gv, running on a BDI-4.30 install, printing the docs for a piece > of the emc2 software package. I told it to print odd pages only as I > no

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j > Mak wrote: > > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > > networking. I have two computers, both about fo

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote:> First off, I am a newbie in Linux and> networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both> have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other> sa

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:56:12 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Majors, Jason wrote: > >>~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop > >>~$ rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state > >>~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start > > > > Thanks. It works! > > > > Nice to hear that it works. Now I have a question for those w

Re: Exim4 & SSL support

2006-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Marco wrote: > I have this in my /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template file: > > log_selector = +tls_cipher +tls_peerdn > tls_advertise_hosts = * > tls_certificate = /etc/ssl/certs/exim4cert.pem > tls_privatekey = /etc/ssl/certs/exim4key.pem > > When exim is started, if I try a netstat -punta |grep exim

Re: pmount permissions

2006-01-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: [...] when I pmount it as normal user: $ pmount /dev/scd0 $ ls -ald /media/scd0 dr-xr-x--- 4 root root 136 2006-01-14 00:57 /media/scd0 So the user cannot access to the contents of the CD. Just to make sure: Is your normal user a member of the "floppy" group?

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:28:21PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling > over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which > I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix > systems... > > Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache

unstable and irrepairable

2006-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins current unstable version cannot replace what's already on this box because of broken pipes. Will someone please call the plumber? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Try to build from source. dpkg-buildpackage will build deb packages for you with proper dependencies. В Чтв, 26/01/2006 в 16:16 -0500, [KS] пишет: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > Well I don't know about Jason, but it's worked for me :) > > > > I recently upgraded to 2.6.15 and switched from OSS

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:21, j Mak wrote: > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have > built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one > with sarge connected t

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both > have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other > sarge. The one with sarge connected to

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > It is possible that I overlooked something while debugging OpenOffice, > but I am pretty sure this _is_ a bug. Feel free to report it, otherwise > I will do it. It's not. GNOME -> GTK UI KDE -> KDE UI Rest -> normal UI unless forced. That even is said in the approp

Re: kde status in Etch

2006-01-26 Thread H.S.
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > H.S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > >>Okay, I did an upgrade but have lost two major things (among others), >>vlc and k3b. What version of k3b do you have? > > > Sorry, but there /is/ no k3b in etch, and there /won't/ be any k3b in > etch until KDE in etch

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread [KS]
Clive Menzies wrote: > > Well I don't know about Jason, but it's worked for me :) > > I recently upgraded to 2.6.15 and switched from OSS to ALSA and was > following this thread with view to solving my no sound problem. > Yes, I noticed that I have to do that when I upgrade a kernel. > Your s

Re: xfig symbol fonts appearance

2006-01-26 Thread H.S.
Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote: > I use xfig in Debian 3.1 (sarge) on a laptop Pentium M. The symbol (greek) > fonts within xfig, used to appear ok on the screen and in the exported .eps > file. Recently, I used xfig after a break and the symbol fonts give strange > characters on the screen. Whil

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/01/06 15:42), [KS] wrote: > Majors, Jason wrote: > >>Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? > >>for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy. > > > > > > No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as > > the output for xmms, I ge

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) > N.Pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I've just installed Etch. From previous installs (Ubuntu and Sarge) I've > > learnt to disconnect my KVM (keyboard, video

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread [KS]
Majors, Jason wrote: >>~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop >>~$ rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state >>~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start > > Thanks. It works! > Nice to hear that it works. Now I have a question for those with better knowledge of alsa: Why do I have to do this? What does asound.state have in i

Re: Problem with apt-get and gpg key

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:57:54AM -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > Hi, > > When I make an apt-get update I get an error concerning a gpg key: > > > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive > Aut

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Scott
Digby Tarvin wrote: Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix systems... Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache search' doesn't find the likes of the following: 1

RE: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Majors, Jason
> ~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop > ~$ rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state > ~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start Thanks. It works!

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:06:48PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > 1. xv - John Bradley's X image viewer/manipulator.. > > google found this: > > http://ftp.fifi.org/debian-local/stable/unofficial/ Ah, ok. So it is not assumed that anyone who creates a debian package will make it availa

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread [KS]
Majors, Jason wrote: >>Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? >>for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy. > > > No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as > the output for xmms, I get that error. > Try this as root: Close your

RE: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Majors, Jason
> Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? > for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy. No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as the output for xmms, I get that error.

Re: marillat

2006-01-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:41:25 +0100 Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson escribe: > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:22 +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > > Tom Allison escribe: > > > > What every happened to marillat? > > > > ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat has been a

Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
 First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one with sarge connected to the Internet with dial-up modem. Both works perfectly. I

Re: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread [KS]
Majors, Jason wrote: >>how are you testing this? What program are ou playing the >>sounds from? to test alsa i suggest you try >> >>aplay >> > > I tried xmms, ogg123, totem, & gxine. > > Aplay doesn't make any sound either. > Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? for ex,

Jerky PS/2 Mouse W/ 2.6 Kernel (Again)

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I posted on this before and got an answer that didn't work (to be fair, the person responding did not think it would work). I know this is not a rare problem and I'm having with Sarge and Sid (both new installs). I've been told there are fixes, but I have not found one. I've searched this lis

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Magnus Therning wrote: I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev (on Sid): % ls /dev|wc -l 662 More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev promised by udev... Under other Linux distros I've ended up with _far_fewer_ devices. Are all devices in /de

Re: 32bit debian on 64bit hardware

2006-01-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 20:04 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > dpkg --print-architecture shows you the hardwired arch setting in your > package system. I get: mercury:/home/hansdp# dpkg --print-architecture i386 Was just curious about what exactly the x86_64 refers to in uname -a Thanks f

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:55 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > >created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > >always worked before). > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:55 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > >created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > >always worked before). > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to

RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread David Baron
>Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely >created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... >always worked before). >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to correspond to stuff in >the sound core modules. Do I now need t

Re: [linux-audio-user] 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:30 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > always worked before). > > Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to corr

xfig symbol fonts appearance

2006-01-26 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
I use xfig in Debian 3.1 (sarge) on a laptop Pentium M. The symbol (greek) fonts within xfig, used to appear ok on the screen and in the exported .eps file. Recently, I used xfig after a break and the symbol fonts give strange characters on the screen. While I type lower case letters, I see uppe

RE: no sound from alsa

2006-01-26 Thread Majors, Jason
> how are you testing this? What program are ou playing the > sounds from? to test alsa i suggest you try > > aplay > I tried xmms, ogg123, totem, & gxine. Aplay doesn't make any sound either.

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:28:21 + Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling > over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which > I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix > systems... > > Can anyone tell me w

Re: Exim4 & SSL support

2006-01-26 Thread Marco
Josep Serrano ha scritto: Hi Marco It doesn't matter if you are using either heavy or light packages. You need to enable the macro MAIN_TLS_ENABLE somwhere in your configuration files. It depends if you are using monolitic or distributed configuration. Read the file in /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/0

2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread David Baron
Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... always worked before). Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to correspond to stuff in the sound core modules. Do I now need to exp

missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix systems... Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache search' doesn't find the likes of the following: 1. xv - John Bradley's X

iptables init script (like in Gentoo) ?

2006-01-26 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello, In Gentoo, the iptables package installs a simple script in /etc/init.d/iptables that is capable of saving and restore a set of iptables using iptables-save and iptables-restore. Is there something like that on Debian ? I don't want a full featured firewall nor to write scripts myself in

Re: An email for you contains VIRUSES

2006-01-26 Thread Scott
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 09:10, SpiderWall wrote: The SpiderWall (spiderwall.ospedale.varese.it) has found potentially malicious code in the email message addressed to you. Delivery has been stopped. Is anyone else getting tired of this bounce loop? Not me, I was hopin

Re: sudo and X

2006-01-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rob Benton wrote: What is DSA? Most of these kind of things can be checked by yourself using the dict command. $dict DSA 9 definitions found From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: DSA Data Service Adapter From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms

Re: 32bit debian on 64bit hardware

2006-01-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
dpkg --print-architecture shows you the hardwired arch setting in your package system. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues with a new etch install: pmud, alsa etc.

2006-01-26 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 1/26/06, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all I've been unable to get pbbuttonsd working, I installedthe > > package for it but when I try to start it I get: Rancorwe:/home/avar# > > /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd startStarting pbbuttonsd:ERROR: The file > > '/dev/pmu' doesn't exi

Re: switching / to lvm

2006-01-26 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. > I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, > I've only seen one say "I'm glad I used LVM", but on a regular > basis someone gets bitten. Agreed. I haven't used LVM, b

Re: 32bit debian on 64bit hardware

2006-01-26 Thread Wackojacko
Darryl Clarke wrote: On 26/01/06, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, I'm just curious, I have a mailserver at work which runs Sarge, installed from the normal i386 CD, onto a 64bit enabled Sempron along with the K8 kernel. When I do uname -a I get this: Linux mercury 2.6.8-11-

Re: can't chmod

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:17:40 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > igor wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 05:35 -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > > > >>>and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? > >>> > >>>This hasn't happened to me... please, help. > >>> > >> > >>What are the permissions

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) N.Pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I've just installed Etch. From previous installs (Ubuntu and Sarge) I've > learnt to disconnect my KVM (keyboard, video, monitor) switch during the > install but it has always worked afterwards. Now, tho

Re: An email for you contains VIRUSES

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:42:31 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 09:10, SpiderWall wrote: > >The SpiderWall (spiderwall.ospedale.varese.it) has found potentially > > malicious code in the email message addressed to you. Delivery has > > been stopped. > > Is

Re: gv bug, maintainer please?

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 13:35, Linas Zvirblis wrote: >> Does anyone know who the gv maintainer is? > >Martin A. Godisch > Humm, I googled for ghostview, and came up with a different name & sent him a short message describing what happened. >> I have a bug report for him. > >Bug are not report

Re: gv stuck in a loop when printing?

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:38 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all; > > Need quick answer folks, I'm burning paper by the ream here. > > I have gv, running on a BDI-4.30 install, printing the docs for a piece > of the emc2 software package. I told it to print odd pages o

Re: Mac OS X and Linux Zeroconf LAN irregularities

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:04:38 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinook wrote: > > Mac OS X and Linux Zeroconf LAN irregularities > > > > I would like to at least understand, if not remedy, > > an annoyance in establishing th

Re: gv bug, maintainer please?

2006-01-26 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Does anyone know who the gv maintainer is? Martin A. Godisch I have a bug report for him. Bug are not reported against maintainers, but against packages they maintain. Read [ http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

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